I have created a visual web JSF page and am using the ICEFaces plugin. My project stores jpeg images as blobs in a database and I'm connecting a graphic image object to the blob column. In this case the value of the object is #(Map.friendtolocationsviewDataProvider.value['photo']}. I have also inserted a graphic image object into a data table which is used to select the current row in the database. Those objects are using a value of #{currentRow['photo']}.

This configuration is working as expected at runtime but at design time it's throwing the following exception:

java.lang.ClassCastException: [B
at com.icesoft.faces.component.ext.renderkit.dt.renderer.ImageRenderer.processSrcAttribute(ImageRenderer.java:89)
at com.icesoft.faces.component.ext.renderkit.dt.renderer.ImageRenderer.encodeBegin(ImageRenderer.java:59)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeBegin(UIComponentBase.java:788)
at com.icesoft.faces.component.ext.renderkit.dt.renderer.TableRenderer.encodeRecursive(TableRenderer.java:788)
at com.icesoft.faces.component.ext.renderkit.dt.renderer.TableRenderer.encodeChildren(TableRenderer.java:718)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.encodeChildren(UIComponentBase.java:812)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.insync.faces.FacesPageUnit.renderBean(FacesPageUnit.java:1304)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.insync.faces.FacesPageUnit.renderNode(FacesPageUnit.java:1549)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.insync.faces.FacesPageUnit.renderBean(FacesPageUnit.java:1337)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.insync.faces.FacesPageUnit.renderNode(FacesPageUnit.java:1549)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.insync.faces.FacesPageUnit.renderNode(FacesPageUnit.java:1563)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.insync.faces.FacesPageUnit.renderNode(FacesPageUnit.java:1563)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.insync.faces.FacesPageUnit.getFacesRenderTree(FacesPageUnit.java:1105)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.insync.faces.FacesPageUnit.renderHtml(FacesPageUnit.java:1675)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.insync.faces.FacesPageUnit.renderHtml(FacesPageUnit.java:1628)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.insync.models.FacesModel.getHtmlDomFragment(FacesModel.java:1614)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.insync.models.FacesModel.findHtmlBody(FacesModel.java:1638)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.insync.models.FacesModel.getHtmlBody(FacesModel.java:1626)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.designer.jsf.JsfForm.getHtmlBody(JsfForm.java:1755)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.designer.jsf.JsfForm.getHtmlBody(JsfForm.java:1745)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.designer.jsf.DomProviderImpl.getHtmlBody(DomProviderImpl.java:119)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.designer.WebForm.getHtmlBody(WebForm.java:937)
at org.netbeans.modules.visualweb.designer.DesignerPane.paintComponent(DesignerPane.java:268)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:1006)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:843)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:1015)
at javax.swing.JViewport.paint(JViewport.java:728)
at javax.swing.JComponent._paintImmediately(JComponent.java:4890)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintImmediately(JComponent.java:4676)
at javax.swing.RepaintManager.paintDirtyRegions(RepaintManager.java:477)
at javax.swing.SystemEventQueueUtilities$ComponentWorkRequest.run(SystemEventQueueUtilities.java:114)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:461)
at org.netbeans.core.TimableEventQueue.dispatchEvent(TimableEventQueue.java:104)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:190)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:176)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)